FinTech

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​​​Customer service expectations are evolving at an unprecedented rate and new entrants to the FinTech sector are innovating and disrupting traditional business models with rapidly advancing financial technologies. The financial services industry is being reshaped and reinvented to respond to customer demands for convenience in service delivery.

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Executive Summary

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Financial institutions are responding to these changes in the marketplace by developing competing technologies, partnering with FinTech companies and transforming their service delivery through new online tools and payment systems.

BLG is positioned to help both financial institutions and established and emerging FinTech companies navigate the new era of digitalization and face the obstacles and issues that may arise by embracing a long term digital vision.

Our lawyers act for a variety of clients involved in the FinTech sector, including domestic and foreign financial institutions, payment acquirers and processors, commercial and consumer finance entities, mobile device manufacturers and mobile payments and e-wallet providers. We also provide advice to FinTech entrepreneurs and other digital financial service providers, and institutional and venture FinTech investors.

As a full service national law firm, with strength across a wide range of practice areas, BLG’s financial services and technology lawyers can seamlessly draw upon the legal expertise of all practice areas, including securities & capital markets, investment management, intellectual property, commercial litigation and tax. This diverse background allows us to provide clients with comprehensive, specialized, practical advice on FinTech regulatory and payments issues.

Publications & Presentations

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Our group is very active in organizing seminars for our key clients and collaborators. In May of 2016, we organized an Industry panel of experts in Toronto for a session entitled:
The FinTech Revolution: Industry Trends and Legal Challenges. During the fall of 2016, we also organized panels of experts in the FinTech and Payment industry for all BLG's National Financial Services symposium held around the country.